worse than it is now, if that were possible. caused Mrs. Deacle to be handcuffed; but not a moment's time have the savage Tories left them for proposing any measure for the relief of the working peo "Let us," says the Doctor, "have an "honest parliament, and we shall be "able to deal honestly with the labour-ple; and, even the accomplished descend"ers:" so say I, Doctor; but that will ant of "John with the bright sword" not be an honest parliament which shall has been so worried by these cruel suffer the dead-weight man, the pen- Tories, that he has not had time to sioners, and the rest of the tax-eaters, think about the 113 Privy Councillors, to have votes, and which shall deny the who he, before he became a Minister, right of voting to those who work to complained were in the receipt of six raise the taxes on which they live; such hundred and fifty thousand pounds a would not be an honest parliament, and year. But if the cruel Tories left them such would not deal honestly with the no time to propose any-thing, they labourers and the working people in general. surely left them time to adopt that which was proposed by others, and Mr. Drummond complains that no their supporters too. Well, then, Docone measure of relief to the suffering tor, during the last session Lord TAYNlabourers has yet been proposed by the HAM proposed a measure of effectual Ministers, while the people have been relief and protection to the labourers. cajoled by the phantom of reform. And He did not merely talk about it; but what is the Doctor's answer to this? he brought in the bill, and the bill was Why, that the Tories (cruel men) have printed. It was a bill replete with given the Ministers no intermission; humanity, justice, and wisdom. The that they have warred with them to the fires are blazing all over England, knife; and then he asks, "How, in though you are so studious to keep a God's name, could they propose any sight of them from the eyes of your thing beneficial to the labourers? Do readers. If Lord TAYNHAM'S bill had not swear, Doctor. To swear profanely been passed, not one of these fires would is, to take God's name in vain; and never ever have been heard of. Lord TAYNwas that name taken more decidedly in HAM is one of their friends; he voted vain than you have taken it here; for, for their Reform Bill; he has supported if you were to take as many oaths to them in every way. It could not be the the fact as there are are words upon Tories that prevented him from peryour paper, you would not make one severing with this wise and just measingle sensible man in the kingdom sure: it must have been the Ministers believe, that the Ministers HAVE NOT they threw their wet blanket over it, HAD TIME to propose any measure of they stifled it to death; therefore, howrelief to the labourers. They have had ever Doctor Black may sneer at Mr. the Parliament sitting for pretty near a Drummond, that gentleman's main whole year. They have found time a complaint against the Ministers is perplenty for passing all the measures ne- fectly just: and I believe him to have cessary to take money out of the pockets as much goodness in one single joint of the people; time a plenty for emigra- of his little-finger, as the whole of them tion-projects enough to craze one to have in their whole bodies. think of; time a plenty to augment the standing army in time of peace, and to irritate the labourers by the embodying of corps of yeomanry cavalry; time a plenty for Special Commissions; time in A NEW edition of Mr. EGLE'S PAMPHgreat abundance for bringing in a bill to LET upon this subject will be published license farmers, to set man-traps and immediately, with an address to Lord spring-guns; time a plenty for reject- LYNDHURST prefixed, in which his ing the motion for a committee for in- Lordship's strange notions relative to quiring into the conduct of those who the matter are discussed. WM. COBBETT. TITHES. lodge our Chairman of the Committee of Health" shows, outside and inside, marks of that cleanliness which our discerning and patriotic Lord Mayor has found to be an essential in a Chair within my reach; if it had been the habit of my well-known life to roll down, with my clothes on, under bulks, or in stinking brothels; if my person SINCE the publication of my last Register, I have received extraordinarily fine samples of the corn from the neighbour-man of this description. Nevertheless, hood of NOTTINGHAM, and also from the though "Charley's" HOUSE may be ISLE OF WIGHT, for which I am very constantly in a state of neatness, justimuch obliged to the senders; and my fying the old comparison of the bancorrespondent in the Isle of Wight, who box; though his person may undergo as invites me to his house, is hereby in- frequent and as efficacious ablutions as formed, that as soon as I can get away those of the nymphs of Diana; though from this truly infernal wen, where it every-thing without tells the beholders is NO CRIME to buy the dead bodies that, with him, all within is the paragon of the people, I shall, in all probability, of purity; still I must insist that he have the pleasure of seeing him, owing, send no more messengers (for whose as I do, a lecturing debt to that part of services I dare say I shall have to pay) Hampshire. I want, too, to prepare to inquire into the state of my rooms, that county for the next election, if we kitchen, cellar, dust-hole, and watershould ever see another, which is, how-courses; and, more, especially, I insist ever, with me, matter of great doubt. that he send me no paper enjoining me I was thinking about going to the North; to be cleanly in my person, to lead but I had forgotten" Charley" Pearson's a sober life, to keep good hours, and proclamation about the dreadful CHO- to abstain from the use of ardent LERA MORBUS, which is travelling spirits! If I were so notorious a drunksouthward it seems; and therefore 1 ard as to make it unsafe to place a bottle shall most likely bend my steps away from it. Say what they will of the CHOLERA MORBUS," it has done good, and great good too." It has exhibited to the world the Whig Privy exhibited to the disgusted beholder Councillors in correspondence with every mark of crapulous and beastly "Charley ;" and all that seems to be debauchery; if my beard, well manured wanting to make us complete, is, for us with soot of the WEN, and duly watered to see "Charley" a Privy Councillor by almost hourly supplies from the ginhimself! However, Privy Councillor, shop and the pot-house, were constantly or Privy Councillor not, I beg him to crying aloud for that razor which was desist from his correspondence with me, refused to it by the barber, from the fear and, at the peril of the bones of his mes- of his being defrauded of remuneration sengers, not to let ME receive any ex- for his toil; if my habiliments gave hortations from "Charley" to keep my evident tokens of having come to my house clean, and to lead a SOBER and body in line direct from Rosemary-lane; an ORDERLY LIFE! I beg that I if, like a sheep, I carried my whole may have no messengers from wardrobe upon my back, and constantly Charley" to deliver his exhortations seemed to have recently been three of this or of any other description: but parts sheared; if my shirt, hidden by of this description especially. "Charley" all possible means, now-and-then peeped is, doubtless, heir to "celestial man- out, and seemed to proclaim the sad sions;" and though neither I, nor any tidings that soap and water were no citizens that I am acquainted with, longer in the world; if my hair, for happen to know any-thing of his want of clipping, hanged down like a earthly domicile, the wise and decent dirty half-worn mop over its staff; if, freemen of Bishopsgate ward, doubtless, in short, my very look were a puke, and must; and we must believe, of course, my smell were poison; then, indeed, that the place which has the honour to there might be some reason for this sort of sumptuary interference; but being, I hope, precisely the contrary of all this, such interference with me is ground of just complaint and resent ment. 66 66 the right of the freemen of the ward; what does our Charley" do? not like a vulgar grubbing attorney, go and make a voluntary offer of gratuitous services to Mr. SCALES, but goes at once and While, however, as intrusive monitor, offers to fling his own body into the breach! I complain of this self-assumed power that is to say, to be clected Alderman of interference on the part of "Charley;" himself in place of Mr. SCALES! while as chairman of the committee of and to enter into a solemn engagement health I express my determination to to surrender his gown whenever the law make the hides of his intrusive messen- should have determined that Mr. Scales gers responsible for the offensiveness of was, in despite of the Court of Aldermen, their errand; as patriot," I, in qualified to wear it. Mr. Scales having common with all who really know been bred a farmer, and having been since him, am ready to acknowledge his both grazier and butcher, had often seen value, and am about to bestow on it the skin of a dead lamb put over a live ungrudgingly all the praise that is its one, in order to make the mother of the due; or, at any rate, all that can be ex-dead lamb take to the live one, a propressed by any words which I have at ceeding which is actually going on at my command. As "patriot," our my farm at Kensington at this moment; "Charley" has seldom seen an equal: but whether Mr. SCALES thought that his industry, his activity, his zeal, his the freemen of Portsoken ward were not devotedness, and, above all, his disinte- so docile 'as a Somersetshire ewe; or restedness, are themes which defy beg-whether he did not choose voluntarily to garly prose to do them justice, and undergo this operation of skinning; be which challenge the loftiest flights of the reason what it might, Mr. SCALES, poetical panegyric. DRYDEN is, alas! with due expressions of gratitude, of no more, and without a DRYDEN how course, declined the generous tender of is justice to be done to our "Charley!" services. But this deducts nothing from This Register! not ten such Registers the merit of the offer, which offer was would contain even a bare and bald accompanied with the observation that statement of the proofs which I could" Charley" would condescend to take produce of his devotion to that country, the Alderman's gown, only as a steppingwhich has the happiness and honour to stone to a seat in Parliament for the claim him for her son. I shall content city! myself with the mention of two only The other instance of self-devotedbut, few as they are in number, they willness, to which I have to call the reagive the reader a pretty fair view of the der's attention, and of which I have to nature and extent of his self devotion. bespeak his admiration, is; that, some All the world has heard of the rejection weeks ago, Charley," seeing that the of Mr. SCALES by that assemblage of all Ministers stood in need of a man of inthat is pure and spotless, the Aldermen dustry, application to business, talent, of London. In short, it is well known and weight of character, wrote to them that some little time ago, a new precept to say that he was ready to take a seat had been issued to elect an Alderman in Parliament; and (hear it, Heaven for the ward of PORTSOKEN, and that and earth!) these proud and insolent Mr. Scales, who has a law suit going on, Whigs have not (at least they had not with the hope of being able to defeat the other day) deigned even to answer the Court of Aldermen, has again offered his letter! And thus, after all, the fond himself, and will, doubtless, be again hope of my heart, that of seeing "Charelected under this new precept; and, in ley" a Privy Councillor, is likely to be all probability, will be again rejected.defeated ! In this state of desperate struggle, and In return from this digression, into of enormous expense on the part of Mr. which I have been led by the enthusiasSCALES; in this state of suspension of tic feelings naturally inspired by con 66 templating the character and the deeds | altogether it is as good an ear as either of our city" Charley," and by the strong of those from Guernsey or Pevensey. partiality that I feel for every-thing ap-And yet the BEAST-LIAR calls it a pertaining to civic virtues and to our civic" fraud," and begs my correspondents Government: coming back, tearing my not to give it to the labouring men to self away from these captivating topics, cultivate! The grower of this corn in and returning to the dull clod-polled Lancashire calculates his crop at 700 subject of Cobbett-corn, respecting Winchester bushels of ears to the acre which, I have to state, that one of the of that county, that is, 350 bushels to sacks (four Winchester bushels) weigh the statute acre; that is, 175 Winchester ed 252 pounds, and Mr. Sapsford called bushels of shelled corn to the statute yesterday to tell me, that it produced acre. And I have always said, that 224 pounds of flour, and this every man with proper culture, it will always yield may have off four rods of ground; and a bushel of shelled corn to the rod, yet the FOOL-LIAR says that this is a which is 160 rods. The gentleman fraud upon the poor! In my last Re- says, that a barrel of beer was made of gister, I said, that Mr. SAPSFORD made the tops, before the corn was ripe. I the COBBETT-BREAD of three-fourths am really proud of this ear of corn wheat and one of corn flour; he tells from Lancashire: the ears are longer me, that it is two-thirds wheat and one and larger in America; but America of corn flour. never produced a better-ripened, or richer, ear of corn. COBBETT-CORN. I HAVE to thank Mr. TEMPLAR for some fine samples of the corn, growed at and near Lymington, in Hampshire. CORN-PUDDINGS. At this time I feed my EWES partly on corn, and their lambs have corn-meal. The FOOL-LIAR has been down, in I have none to spare for pigs or poultry. person, to the HARD-PARISHES, to per suade the people that it will give pigs the "MURRAIN," and to people the WE use the corn-flour in my family, "YELLOW JAUNDICE." There's a FIRST as bread, two-thirds wheaten and beast for you! I wish the good fellows one-third corn-flour; SECOND, in batter of Preston could have seen the contempt puddings baked, a pound of flour, a and scorn with which these sensible quart of water, two eggs, though these people treated the beast! It is not the last are not necessary; THIRD, in plum- LIAR, the impudent liar, it is not the puddings, a pound of flour, a pint of malignant animal that we have to conwater, half a pound of suet, the plums, template here, but the beastly foolishand no eggs; FOURTH, in plain suet-ness. Just as if the folks in the hardpuddings, and the same way, omitting parishes did not know that all farm. the plums; FIFTH, in little round animals were fatted on it in America, dumplings, with suet or without, and and that all the people ate it there. though they are apt to break, they are very good in this way; in broth, to thicken it, for which use it is, beyond all measure, better than wheaten flour. And yet the FOOL-BEAST LIAR calls it a fraud," and uses the frank, the power of using which the good honest fellows of PRESTON thought they were bestowing upon an able and bold defender of their rights! 46 I have just received an ear of my corn growed in Lancashire, twelve miles north of Liverpool. It is not quite so long, so large, or so heavy; but taken However, I suspect that this trip into Hampshire, and this visit to the hardparishes, had some view beyond the preservation of the cattle and the people from the deadly effects of the corn! In short, look upon this as an expedition undertaken for the loan-mongers! ΤΟ SIR THOMAS DENMAN. In the next Register a handsome present for him to take to Bristol with him. TO porter "CHARLEY" another time, and MR. MITCHELL OF PRESTON. of his Common Serjeant. SIR, YOUR letter, in the Preston Chronicle, rescues you from the imputation of being, or having been, an accomplice of THE LIAR, which for a while you appeared From the LONDON GAZETTE, INSOLVENT. to be. Your letter has made us all laugh; READ, T., Hockliffe, Bedfords., victualler. for, though we here knew him before, the trip to Liverpool, and the Catholic 66 BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. BANKRUPTS. Charity, have really made us stare; even FLEMING, J., Pendleton, Lancas., plumber. us, who know him so well! And his rents," which he had just received! Oh! I wish you had known all about that matter. Next time, ask him where his estates lie. I most sincerely congratulate you on your escape, and am 66 Your most obedient servant, BLOW, R.,GreatGrimsby,Lincolns., merchant. baker. BULLEY, C. C., and W. Lavers, Nicholas la., wine-merchants. DANIEL, T., Chester-st., Grosvenor-pl., and DEXTER, R. E., Northampton, ironmonger. GOODWIN, J., Stafford, shoe-manufacturer. master-mariner. cabinet-maker. SYM, W., Upper Marylebone-st., Portland-pl., STAREY, S., and T. Starey, Croydon, bleachers. upholsterer. MR. ALDERMAN SCALES. THE new election has closed, and Mr. SCALES has now been elected by a majority of 95, he having 169 votes, and Hughes Hughes" 74 votes. His majority over Harvey was 28. So that our paragons of purity have got much by this attempt to overrule the freemen and nullify their choice. It is the duty of the LORD MAYOR to attend, and officially proclaim the Alderman that has SMITH, S., Sibery, York-terrace, Regent's been duly elected. Our bright Chief- park, hotel-keeper. Magistrate attended accordingly, having SMITH, T., Birmingham, grocer. his Common Serjeant (Law) at his el-SOLOMON, I. L., and B. Solomon, Bristol, bow. It is said that the golden-chained personage hesitated whether he should not proclaim Hughes Hughes, who is an Attorney, well known at Clapham under the name of " Hewit." It was impudent enough in the Court of Aldermen, to dare to refuse to swear Mr. Scules in and to issue a new precept; but a VETO by DON KEY would have been reducing the thing to a farce indeed! The DoN did not persevere to the consummation of the act; and Mr. SCALES was proclaimed duly elected. Never was miniature more like a large picture, than this City Government is like that down at Westminster, except as to what relates to the heads of the government. Their lives entwined: they will stand, one just as long as the other. More of DON KEY and his sup-MORE, L., Lawrence-Pountney-lane, merch, are TIPTON, T., Hereford, licensed-victualler. |
